From Booker Prize-winning author John Berger, a luminous collection of interwoven stories, Once in Europa is a portrait of two worlds—a small Alpine village bound to the earth and by tradition, and the restless, future-driven culture that will invade it—at their moment of collision. The instrument of entrapment is love: the passion of a willful shepherd for a shrewd bourgeois housewife; of a vital young woman for a dashing Russian who has come to work in the local factory; of a steadfast son for his aged mother. Lives are lost and hearts are broken, and, always, love is a transcending form of grace. In Once in Europa, it speaks as plainly and as movingly as a remembered language, creating a work of astonishing tenderness.
- ISBN10 0394539923
- ISBN13 9780394539928
- Publish Date 12 February 1987
- Publish Status Remaindered
- Out of Print 18 October 2003
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Random House USA Inc
- Edition American ed.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 192
- Language English